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Install Brave browser on CentOS 7

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I've been trying to install the Brave browser on CentOS 7 for some time now. The problem was that you had to use an option that is not considered safe to make it work and I opted not to use it that way. Today I went back to check the progress made and if a new option was available to get it installed/running with CentOS 7 (release 7.7.1908). The good news is yes but ,  you have to use a specific version . If you are using CentOS 8 the instructions here might work for you, if you are working with CentOS 7 don't follow them because as stated by " fmarier " on this link : < Given that CentOS 8 is now out and that we do not currently have the resources to do the work necessary to fix the glibc and the keysigning issues specific to CentOS/RHEL 7, we have decided not to support that version at this time and to instead allocate our time to the Linux distros which are currently working. > So, how do we install Brave?!  Here's another li...

Steps to install VirtualBox guest additions on CentOS 8

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After you complete your favorite option (Workstation, Server, etc) of CentOS 8 as a virtual machine using VirtualBox you're going to need to install the following packages (note that I'm  using 'dnf' instead of yum which is a softlink): # which yum /usr/bin/yum # which dnf /usr/bin/dnf # ls -ld /usr/bin/yum lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 5 May 13 14:34 /usr/bin/yum - dnf-3 # dnf install kernel-devel-$(uname -r) kernel-headers perl gcc make elfutils-libelf-devel After this, you can proceed as usual to the VirtualBox menu "Devices" and choose the option at the bottom "Insert Guest Additions CD image..." And follow the usual steps when a window pop-up asking you to run the script and proceed with the compilation/installation of the module. What follows is the output of the installation of the packages from previous command (if you choose the "workstation" option: # dnf install kernel-devel-$(uname -r) ker...